Not the Deformed Standard Version but the moral law of God as revealed in the Ten Commandments. Your modernist view runs counter to the historic practice of Reformation churches. The posting of banns was included in the first prayer book of the Anglican Church.
The Ten Commandments you say? So, which commandment applies to this issue and teaches that a marriage takes place when a couple has sex and/or agrees to get married?
For the last time, I never said that marriage took place when a couple had sex and/or agreed to get married. However, when there is a rightful betrothal, they are husband and wife in the sight of God per Matt. 1:19-20.
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1549 Book of Common Prayer THE FORME OF SOLEMNIZACION OF MATRIMONIE.
ΒΆ First the bannes must be asked three several Soondayes or holye dayes. in the service tyme, the people beeyng presente, after the accustomed maner. etc., etc.
Sorry, but my Bible does not contain that passage. Therefore, I stand with Luther and all the other Reformers that unless you can show me from SCRIPTURE where such a thing is taught, I cannot accept such a thing as that which binds my conscience and demands my obedience.
Exodus 20:12. The Christian couple delights in honoring those in authority over them. In the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, church and state wisely required a waiting period and public annoucement to ensure there was no fraud by either party or no other impediment to the union. This requirement has been unwisely relaxed by most churches and governments.
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Pilgrim adds So, is it your understanding that Paul is saying that if a couple burns with lust (passion) for each other then all that is necessary is that they should simply commit to marry? which is synonymous with actual marriage? I can agree to buy a car from an automobile dealership, but that is not the same as my actually owning the car.
Once you sign the contract, you own the car and the dealer owns your money even though he still has possession of the car and you haven't written the check. To continue your analogy, marriage fulfills the terms of the contract. In marriage, the husband and wife (by contract) are transferred from the custody of their parents to each other's custody.
Last edited by speratus; Wed Nov 02, 200511:34 PM.
